Synopses & Reviews
Originally published by Harper Torchbooks, 1970.
Synopsis
In its original printing, this edition of the Autobiography was greeted in Saturday Review as a treasure-house of information on education, monastic life, and the beginnings of the great medieval towns also delightful reading with its mingling of scholarship and superstition, its stories of necromancy and devils, its other-worldliness warring with human weakness.
Originally published by Harper Torchbooks, 1970.
"
Synopsis
?His [Guilbert of Nogent (d. 1124), a Benedictine monk and historiographer "Memoirs," however, are equally interesting and provide precious insights into French culture of the 11th and 12th centuries...What emerges is an engaging portrait of a man and hi
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-244) and indexes.